On this day, we quickly establish how we loosely schedule our days at Jalama. In the morning after breakfast, we take our dogs for a long walk on beach when the tide is low.
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| Checkers and Mary lead the way down the beach |
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Often we see surfers and their families walking the same direction towards "Tarantulas," the local surf break.
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| Dogs, kids and surfers |
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| Surfer with beach umbrella |
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Cono likes to play ball games with Jamie by dropping his favorite blue ball down some rocks, and then either retrieving the ball or getting Jamie to toss it for him.
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| Cono drops his ball off rocks to Jamie |
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| Opps - better get it! |
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| Comp - successful recovery of the blue ball |
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We walk as far as we can towards
Point Conception.
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| Point Conception is visible in the background |
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Along the way we see many interesting rock formations, many of which are splattered with tar. No wonder several oil rigs have set up offshore. I learn the hard way to be careful of avoiding stepping barefooted on the gooey tar. It's hard to get off, although someone in the group discovers olive oil works well to get it off.
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| Layered and scalloped sandstone |
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| Odd formations |
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| Surfer catches a wave at Tarantulas |
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We eat lunch after the walk. As the afternoon temperatures climb into the low 90's, we bed our dogs down for a nap. Our rat terriers are especially spoiled as we set them on our bed in the Sprinter van with the air conditioning on. Then, us humans put our swimsuits on, grab our beach towels and toys to play in the surf. Even though the water temperature is only in the high 60's, it feels good to cool off in the waves.
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| Dog day afternoon - Sue & dog, Suzie and Cono, Me & Checkers, Peter & Mary, Terry & Maggie, Anthea & Reggi |
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For a few quarters we can clean up in the park's showers and get ready for happy hour. This evening Kendall and John are fixing a beach-side Thanksgiving feast.
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| Holy smoking turkey |
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| Smells good! |
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| Now that's a beauty! |
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| Kendall carves turkey |
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| Dinner is served |
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| Early Thanksgiving with friends |
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Then dinner clean up and another puppy walk on the beach.
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| Surfliner rushes south over train trestle |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| Picture perfect surf |
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Sunset finds us back at camp taking photos and watching nature's evening show.
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| Sunset paparazzi |
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| Udo hangs loose |
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| Another tough day in paradise |
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That evening we celebrate birthdays with red velvet cake...
We light a campfire, tune up guitars and sing songs around the fire. Yes John - next year we'll bring song sheets so we'll know what we're doing.
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| campfire in the evening |
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